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Formal Methods: Use and Relevance for the Development of Safety-Critical Systems
Author(s) -
Leonor Barroca,
John McDermid
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
the computer journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.319
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1460-2067
pISSN - 0010-4620
DOI - 10.1093/comjnl/35.6.579
Subject(s) - formal methods , computer science , relevance (law) , life critical system , context (archaeology) , risk analysis (engineering) , development (topology) , refinement , management science , software engineering , software , programming language , mathematics , engineering , business , political science , law , paleontology , mathematical analysis , biology
ion is one of our primary intellectual weapons for coping with complexity and itaids clarity by `drawing away from" details which are not germane to our interests.Clarity also arises from conciseness. As we indicated above formal notations vary in their ability to representconcepts concisely but, hopefully, they can be used to produce very compact descriptions. More importantly theycan be much more compact than equally clear natural language descriptions whilst (normally) being more...

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